November 18, 2020 at 3 P.M. MST
We are thrilled that the Tucson Festival of Books will be featuring Gary Paul Nabhan and Francisco Cantú on their online event series, Authors in Conversation!
Gary and Francisco will be discussing a new University of Arizona Press book, The Nature of Desert Nature, of which Gary is the editor and Francisco is a contributor.
More information about this event is coming soon!
October 7, 2020 at 3 P.M. MST
We are thrilled that the Tucson Festival of Books is featuring University of Arizona Press author Carolyn Niethammer on their online event series, Authors in Conversation!
Carolyn will be speaking about her new University of Arizona Press book, A Desert Feast, with Andi Berlin, the Arizona Daily Star’s digital food writer.
Register here!
Join University of Arizona Press authors Josie Méndez-Negrete and Lorena V. Márquez for a virtual discussion on their recent University of Arizona Press books that focus on community and activist histories in San Jose and Sacramento, California.
Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020
1 p.m. Pacific time on Zoom
Free, but registration is required. Please register here.
La Gente: Struggles for Empowerment and Community Self-Determination in Sacramento by Márquez, traces the rise of the Chicana/o Movement in Sacramento and the role of everyday people in galvanizing a collective to seek lasting and transformative change during the 1960s and 1970s.
Méndez-Negrete’s Activist Leaders of San José: En sus propias voces, narrates how parents—both mothers and fathers—were inspired to work for the rights of their people. Workers’ and education rights were at the core, but they also took on the elimination of at-large elections to open city politics, labor rights, domestic abuse, and health care.
Join editors Margaret Cantú-Sánchez, Candace de León-Zepeda, and Norma Elia Cantú, and contributors of the new book, Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa: Pedagogy and Practice for Our Classrooms and Communities, to discuss this volume’s practical and inspiring ways to deploy Anzaldúa’s transformative theories with real and meaningful action.
Thursday, October 22, 2020, 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time
This is a free online event, but registration is required. Please visit here to register.
“Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa is a pragmatic and inspiring offering of how to apply Anzaldúa’s ideas to the classroom and in the community rather than simply discussing them as theory. The book gathers nineteen essays by scholars, activists, teachers, and professors who share how their first-hand use of Anzaldúa’s theories in their classrooms and community environments.”
University of Arizona Press authors Daniel Chacón and Fred Arroyo will talk about life, writing, and their recent books, Kafka in a Skirt and Sown in Earth.
When: August 11, 2020 via Zoom
Time: 1 to 3 p.m.
Event is free, but registration is REQUIRED. Please register here.
About the authors:
Fred Arroyo‘s most recent book with the University of Arizona Press is Sown in Earth. By crafting a written journey through childhood traumas, poverty, and the impact of alcoholism on families, Arroyo clearly outlines how his lived experiences led him to become a writer. Sown in Earth is a shocking yet warm collage of memories that serves as more than a memoir or an autobiography. Rather, Arroyo recounts his youth through lyrical prose to humanize and immortalize the hushed lives of men like his father, honoring their struggle and claiming their impact on the writers and artists they raised.
Daniel Chacón‘s first book with the University of Arizona Press, Kafka in a Skirt is a short-story collection set in El Paso and other Latinx-dominant urban spaces that dives into the lives of the characters who inhabit these culturally diverse areas. Chacón masterfully weaves elements of the surreal and fantastic through a shining tapestry of fiction, creating moments of touching realism in contrast with scenes that are fascinatingly unfamiliar. Occasionally teasing the ghosts of Jorge Luis Borges and the Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik, this collection disregards boundaries and transports readers into a world merely parallel to our own.
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August 15, 2020 at 11:00 A.M., MST
Join Christine D. Beaule and John G. Douglass for a virtual talk on their new volume, The Global Spanish Empire.
In the fall of 2018, an Amerind Foundation seminar that was focused on Spanish colonialism resulted in our recent book The Global Spanish Empire: Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism, which drew together an international group of amazing scholars. Through their case studies, the project illuminated the role of place making in colonial societies and the pluralistic nature of these diverse groups of people brought together. This free zoom talk will highlight not only the key takeaways from the group study, but also offer important insight into the role of Iberian colonialism across the globe from the 1300s through the 1800s.
Christine D. Beaule is an associate professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Her work focuses on Spanish colonialism in both the Philippines and the central highland Andes.
John G. Douglass, vice president of research and standards at Statistical Research, Inc., and adjunct professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. His research has focused on Indigenous-Colonial interaction, religious performance, household archaeology, and community creation in the American Southwest, California, and Mesoamerica.
This online program is free, but space is limited.
To register visit: https://bit.ly/AmerindOnline081520
May 9, 2020 at 1:00 P.M. PDT
The Amerind Foundation is offering a free lecture with University of Arizona Press author Patricia Gilman via Zoom on May 9th. In this talk, Patricia Gilman will discuss a Native American culture of 1,000 years ago and their famous pottery paintings of people and animals. The people who lived in the Mimbres region of southwestern New Mexico painted their ceramic bowls with black designs on a white background, and those designs included realistic scenes of people, animals, and sometimes combinations of the two. Gilman will consider what these scenes might mean, drawing on the Hero Twins origin saga common in Mesoamerica, and she will touch upon the role of scarlet macaws from the rain forests of Mexico in Mimbres ritual and religion.
The online program is free, but space is limited. Click here to register.
Patricia Gilman is the co-author or co-editor of three University of Arizona Press books on the Mimbres region, including New Perspectives on Mimbres Archaeology, Mimbres Life and Society, and Mimbres Society.
May 16, 2020 at 1:00 P.M. PDT
The Amerind Foundation is hosting a free lecture via Zoom with University of Arizona Press author Paul Minnis on May 16. Because of the Amerind’s groundbreaking research, people know Paquimé in northwestern Chihuahua as one of the premier and influential ancient communities in the borderlands. It is hard to ignore its archaeological riches: massive buildings, hundreds of parrot burials, over a ton of shell artifacts, copper, large ball courts, ceremonial mounds, and magnificent polychrome pottery. But these are only a part of Paquimé’s story. We will explore equally important characteristics of this site and its neighbors.
This online program is free, but space is limited. Click here to register.
Paul Minnis is the co-author and co-editor of many University of Arizona Press books on Paquimé, including Discovering Paquimé, Ancient Paquimé and the Casas Grandes World, Casas Grandes and Its Hinterlands, and Neighbors of Casas Grandes. A new volume edited by Paul Minnis and Michael Whalen, The Prehispanic Ethnobotany of Paquimé and Its Neighbors, will be published in the fall.
Eric Kuhn and John Fleck, authors of Science Be Dammed, discuss water management history and the challenges facing the Colorado River on Wednesday, May 6, 2020.
This virtual book panel, moderated by Ben Wilder, director of the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill in Tucson, Arizona, will delve into the conventional wisdom that the 1922 Colorado River Compact negotiators did the best they could with a limited gauge record. The data they used happened to be during an unusually wet period.
Please register for this free event here.
This event will be hosted on Zoom. You’ll receive the link to the Zoom meeting the day of the event via email. Please email publicity@uapress.arizona.edu if you have any questions.
The authors argue in Science Be Dammed argue that the politicians, states, and water agencies that shaped the development of the Colorado River had the science available to them to make better decisions, but political expedience prevailed and the science was ignored.
Today, the Colorado River is overused and facing a future where climate change is reducing the Colorado River flows.
As we shape the future of the river, will we learn from our past mistakes or will we continue to ignore inconvenient science?
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